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Maggie Steber is an American documentary photographer who has received several awards including the Leica Medal of Excellence and the Medal of Honor for Distinguished Service to Journalism from the University of Missouri in 2003.

Biography
Steber was born and raised in Texas and went to the University of Texas in Austin. She currently resides in Miami, Florida. She has also lived in New York City, Zimbabwe where she covered a guerrilla war from 1978 to 1980, and Cuba from 1982 to 1985.

Career
Steber got her start at Galveston Daily News as a photographer and reporter and later went on to work for as a photographer Newsweek Magazine, a picture editor at the Associated Press in New York and Director of Photography at the Miami Herald.

Steber has worked in over 65 countries in the course of her career. Although she has primarily done photography for National Geographic Magazine she has also worked at Newsweek Magazine, was the Director of Photography at the Miami Herald, a picture editor for Associated Press Photos, and worked for the Garcia Media Group as a consultant.

She is best known for her work as a National Geographic photographer and in 2013 she was named one of Eleven Women of Vision by the Magazine. The book and exhibition featured 11 female photographers who exhibited superior use of photographic skill to tell a story

Her magazine work also included photographer for The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, The New York Times, Life Magazine, Aperture Quarterly, Fortune, Smithsonian, People Magazine, Time Magazine, Newsweek Magazine (1990-1994), U.S. News and World Report, Der Spiegel, Du Magazine of Switzerland, Merian Magazine of Germany, French and American Geo and the AARP Bulletin and website.

Steber has also worked as a judge for World Press Photo, Pictures of the year, the Alicia Patterson Foundation, the Pulitzer Prize committee, the Alexia Foundation,  and the Young Arts Foundation among others.

Steber has been a Master Teacher at the Joop Swart Master Classes at World Press Photo 3 times and regularly teaches workshops at the International Center for Photography in New york City, the Foundry Workshops, the Leica Akademie USA, Photo Expeditions, and Fotokonbit.org in Haiti where she also serves on the advisory board.

Grants that Maggie Steber has received include the Alicia Patterson Foundation in 1988, the Ernst Haas Foundation, and the Knight Foundation in 2007.

Awards
Steber Leica Medal of Excellence, the Olivier Rebbot Award for Best Photographic Reporting from Abroad from the Overseas Press Club, First Prize Spot News from the World Press Photo Foundation, the Medal of Honor for Distinguished Service to Journalism from the University of Missouri, and has been the guest of honor or featured artist at the Pingyao Festival, Visa Pour L'image, the Jardins du Luxumbourg in Paris,  and the Obscura Festival in Penang, Malaysia and dozens of other venues in the US and internationally.

Books, Exhibitions & Collections
Steber's work is included in the Library of Congress collection of American Women Photographers and her photography has been featured in the African Diaspora Collection at the Richter Library at the University of Miami, as well as a number of other public and private collections.

Dancing on Fire-  Photographs From Haiti, published by Aperture

Rite of Passage- self-published Blurb Book co-produced by Media Storm

Madje has Dementia- AARP.org

Scenes from a Ruined Boulevard - New York Times

Some of her more note-worthy projects include Dark Side, Audacity of Beauty, Rite of Passage, and War Letters